CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

william-read-2 Stephen Fry and Hugh Lawrie star in this memorable adaptation of the Wodehouse novels, and it is hard to imagine any other "Jeeves and Wooster" production will ever exceed the quality of their work in this respect. The criticisms of other reviewers of the changes in character over the short four years of production are validly made, but this only slightly detracts from the overall quality of the series.By the time this series started in 1990, the two principal actors were already well-established on UK television in a range of television programmes. It was a great change for them to embark on "Jeeves and Wooster", and after this series ended they continued their careers, as an "all purpose compère" in the case of Fry, and Lawrie as Dr House in US television. A quarter of a century has now passed since the series ended, and its timeless excellence will continue to impress audiences worldwide; the series is highly recommended.

Steven Torrey The implausible to the improbable to the inevitable to the catastrophic and back again--all delightfully and whimsically portrayed. Perfect casting of Stephen Fry as Jeeves the Butler to Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster--inept gad about.Only the Brits know how to make television brilliant. Whether it is "Foyle's War" or "As Time Goes By" or "Jeeves and Wooster." Americans simply cannot make these living room dramas the way the Brits do; Americans put too much high gloss on their productions that ultimately detracts from the production.P. G. Wodehouse is the brilliant writer who first penned Jeeves and Wooster to paper--and as always, the books should be read for the sheer pleasure of reading how comedy works in prose. But even without knowing or reading P. G. Wodehouse, this series is truly a pleasure to watch. The dialogue, the situations, the dancing, the music, the production values. And yes--British or Canadian actors trying to mimic American accent, rhythms, slang and idiom is part of the charm of the production. Maybe that's what is meant by American gloss; an American production would get bona fide American actors to provide the 'correct' reading without realizing how much is lost with that quest for perfection--how glossy the perfection ends up giving the production.P.G. Wodehouse began the Jeeves series in 1919 and produced the last one in 1970; he was a prolific writer and collaborator of songs with Jerome Kerne and Cole Porter--he provide the story for Porter's musical "Anything Goes." He lived from 15 October 1881 to 14 February 1975."Jeeves and Wooster" is now available on line thanks to Youtube and worth every minute watching.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU This series is worth pure gold galore. It is British and that means the actors are absolutely excellent, the settings and the production are extremely fine and rich. The details are not neglected and that is a real pleasure. The best part is of course the work on the language, the speech patterns, and you can imagine the pleasure they take when the two characters move to New York. The contrast between the extreme aristocratic tone and intonation, the fascinating politeness of Jeeves, the Valet, and the American secular and even gross way of speaking with no affectation is a bag of diamonds on the screen. The action takes place in the 20s or 30s with some kind of fuzziness as for the time period. We seem to still be in the prohibition era, and at the same time not to be in the post 1929 depression. So we could be in the 1920s. That corresponds to the period Francis Scott Fitzgerald preferred for his rich idle young American men and women coming to Europe to enjoy their idleness in pure carelessness. But here these young aristocrats are constantly taken up in innumerable intrigues that have to do with their century old rivalries and jealousies, or their innumerable love affairs and hormonal capers. The main character is not so much Wooster, the aristocrat, but Jeeves, his valet, because he is the one who constantly builds the intrigues, thickens and even sickens the plots, in many ways manipulates his "master" into doing things he would like to do but can't do because he is a valet, a servant, and that would be too risky for him. He is also some kind of guardian angel for his "master" saving him quite often from total perdition at the very last minute. He is the champion of all escape makers and escape planners. But this series goes a lot further than that. We cannot say that the social content is that rich and that we could speak of social criticism. It is a comedy and does not intend to become a social drama or a social epic. That humor is English and only the British can produce it. It is both so elaborate and so extreme that it is hilarious from beginning to end. You thus have all the themes you need to really be humorous from a pure English point of view. You have them all, and even more. Old spinsters, old bachelors, plumbers, bobbies, Anglican priests, twins, old aunts and old uncles being fooled by young nieces and nephews, all kinds of grotesque characters, the fools and the crazies of this world, even some good Africans and judges. You cannot miss the all man's club and the impersonation of so many characters that we just wonder at times if we are not back in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Disguises, transvestites, foolish capers, you name it you have it. The rhythm of these parades is so diabolical that you can hardly follow them, even if they are predictable at times to the very second. But they are too funny for you not to play the game. The only missing character is the desert island and the marooned person there under his coconut tree eating ladyfingers. That is a must for those who like British humor, slightly black, definitely grinding to a crazy downfall, certainly not to a halt. I just wonder if we could not say it is a classic.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

BrianH-6 My father introduced me to the Jeeves stories and I fell in love with them. Adaptation can be a tricky affair but this series is done superbly. Hugh Laurie portrayed Bertie just as I pictured the character. I always thought of Jeeves as being older but Stephen Fry portrayal of Jeeves dispelled that notion. The other characters are done well especially Bingo and Aunt Agatha. If you've read the stories a couple of them are usually combined into one episode. Having great material to start with and maintaining that standard is tough but this series does it brilliantly. So if you enjoy Wodehouse or enjoy good farce I highly recommend this series.